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owners know their pets can be finicky about their food and sleeping areas,
but it doesn't stop there. As Barry Petersen reports, Japanese researchers
found music that's the cat's meow.
To the lover of cats, a purr
is music to the ears. But what is music to the ears of a cat?
To find out, Japanese researcher
Noirio Aoki wired cats to a machine measuring heart beat, and played a
variety of music. Rock music, for instance. Even nine lives isn't enough
time to fall in love with that. This disturbs the cat a lot.
He says, okay, how about
gentle music? Ah, that's a feline flat-line. Cats like music that's more
like Muzak. Or as Aoki-San put it, a steady melody.
That's news you can use
if you're these folks, marketing music by cable - including a pet channel.
Yes, it's come to that. What they like, says this music programmer, is
classical, instrumental, and new age.
So cat lovers, more Mozart
and less Madonna. More Beethoven, less Beatles. Or as your furry friend
might say, the right music is the cat's meow. |
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Japanese
researcher Noirio Aoki wired cats to a machine measuring heart beat, and
played a variety of music.
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Cats
like music that's more like Muzak.
Or
as Aoki-San put it, a steady melody.
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